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Date:      Mon, 14 Jan 2019 16:23:24 +0000
From:      Mark Blackman <mark@exonetric.com>
To:        Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Any suggestions for a layer 3 load ablancer for 12, as relayd doesnt work anymore
Message-ID:  <3D5F990E-5E0E-4B5C-9D9B-C0A1C1F7EDCB@exonetric.com>
In-Reply-To: <E1gj4tQ-000MGi-0H@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk>
References:  <E1gj4tQ-000MGi-0H@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk>

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> On 14 Jan 2019, at 16:15, Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk> wrote:
>=20
> So, until the middle of this afternoon I was, doing my load balancing usin=
g
> relayd from ports and PF. My own fault for not checking, but I upgraded
> one of the firewall pair to 12 and then discovered that the relayd port is=

> no longer available.
>=20
> Am now puzzling over solutions to this - I dont really want to stay on
> 11 forevere. Moving to OpenBSD to get their PF and relayd is a bit of
> an uncomfortable idea as we gain a lot from having one OS everywhere that
> people know, so does anyone have any suggestions ?
>=20
> PF round robin is not good enough for this as I have some dynamic problems=

> which indicate when a node is up or down. Relayd will check these, but the=

> basic PF wil not as far as I know.
>=20
> What do other people do ?

Use HAproxy for basic load balancing and Traefik for more sophisticated usag=
e. Not sure how you get seamless failover with either though. That was the n=
ice thing about relayd/PF

- Mark=




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